• Year of composition: Probably Stockholm 1788 (according to van Boer)
• Work category: Voice and orchestra
• Text author: Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) [from the opera Demofoonte, Act II, scene 6]
• Duration: Approx. 5-10 min
• Detailed duration: Uncertain

Instrumentation

0.2.0.0 / 2.0.0.0 / (cont) / str

Solo voices/choir

Soprano (Dircea)

Location for score and part material

Transcript exists in the Uppsala University library (according to van Boer)

• Possible call no. and autograph comment: The autograph earlier existed at the Royal Opera library, but is not lost (according to van Boer)

Literature

van Boer Jr, Bertil H: Die Werke von Joseph Martin Kraus. Systematisch-thematisches Werkverzeichnis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music series no. 56, Stockholm (1988); an updated edition in English with a partly revised VB-numbering was published in 1998 by Pendragon Press under the title Joseph Martin Kraus. A Systematic-Thematic Catalogue of His Musical Works and Source Study. (In a later and as per February 2015 not yet published VB numbering, this work is labelled "Fermati! - Si tutti i mali miei".)

Description of work

Recitative: (tempo mark missing) E-flat major 4/4 (C)
Aria: Andante molto E-flat major 4/4 (C)

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